Articles by Joshua Kopstein
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Drone Strikes Fuel the Hatred That Led to Paris Attacks, Ex-Drone Pilots Say
Joshua Kopstein, Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
In his squad, children spotted from a Predator drone’s high-resolution camera were called “fun-sized terrorists” or “TITs,” for “Terrorist In Training,” while launching a strike was “cutting the grass before it grows too tall” or “pulling the weeds before they take over the lawn. It was anything you could do to remove their humanity, but in the process you lose your own humanity.”
→ read full articleWhen Surveillance Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Joshua Kopstein – The Guardian,
31 Aug 2015
Windows 10 heralds a future in which the cloud rules and computers snitch on us by default. New technology shouldn’t offer a choice between giving up our privacy to live like the Jetsons and defending it to live like the Flintstones.
→ read full articleFeds Are Using Fear, Not Facts, in Anti-Encryption Crusade
Joshua Kopstein – Al Jazeera America,
4 May 2015
Federal agencies say encryption will doom us, but they’re already using spy tools that circumvent it. That law enforcement groups continue to ignore a broad consensus of experts speaks to how desperately their position relies on scaremongering and distortions.
→ read full articleHacked Corporations Don’t Deserve Our Sympathy
Joshua Kopstein – Al Jazeera America,
29 Dec 2014
There is no cyber Pearl Harbor. Sony has been falling on its own sword for a long time.
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